RE: Chemical nastiness (now B&W inkjet printing)

["gary" <gsellani@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Do you have to leave the printer in B&W mode until the ink is finished?

It's been my experience that the epson 1200 gets a bit confused in you start
swapping in and out ink cartridges. If you put one in, it must be new, so
the printer thinks. Yet the newer printers with chips in the cartridges were
supposed to cause more problems.



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> From: owner-scan@leben.com [mailto:owner-scan@leben.com]On Behalf Of
> Kennedy McEwen
> Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2001 4:18 PM
> To: scan@leben.com
> Subject: Re: Chemical nastiness
>
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> In article <FIEDJBDDEKPHGJMLCCCLOENJCKAA.chip@thelouie.org>, Chip Louie
> <chip@thelouie.org> writes
> >
> >Is there a way to get decent B&W prints from an inkjet that
> won't break the
> >bank?
> >
> I don't know how small your bank is, but there are suppliers of quadtone
> inks for some of the Epson inkjets which replace each of the colours
> with a different density of black ink.  It might be cheaper to buy a
> used 4 colour Epson which does not use chipped cartridges and buy
> quadtone carts specifically for it, rather than splash out on the
> continuous ink systems required for the chipped machines.  A special
> driver is provided so that a full range of greys can be reproduced
> without visible dithering.
>
> According to the users on the Epson list, the output is as good, perhaps
> better, than conventional chemical B&W prints.  I haven't used them
> myself, but if you ask on the Epson list you will get as much advice as
> you need.  Since someone asked about this on that list recently, I can
> provide you with these links as a starter though:
>
>
> http://www.inkjetmall.com/store/carbon-black.html
> http://www.inkjetmall.com/store/piezography-purchase.html
>
> http://www.inksupply.com/index.cfm?source=html/quadtone.html
>
> HTH  :-)
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